AIDS-related health behavior: Coping, protection motivation, and previous behavior

Health motivation in health behavior: Its theory and application

HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi

Subjective expectations are likely to be an important determinant of health-related behaviors in a high-HIVprevalence environment. We use probabilistic expectations data elicited from survey respondents in rural Malawi to investigate how risky sexual behavior may be influenced by individuals’ survival expectations, which in turn depend on the perceived impact of HIV/AIDS on survival; expectatio...

Reproductive Health and Behavior, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty in Africa

This paper examines the complex linkages of poverty, reproductive/sexual health and behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It addresses the following questions: (1) what have we learned to date about these links and what are the gaps in knowledge to be addressed by further research; (2) what is known about the effectiveness for HIV prevention of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS interventions and pol...

Running head: MORAL MOTIVATION, SYMPATHY, AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR Children’s Moral Motivation, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behavior

Two studies investigated the role of children’s moral motivation and sympathy in prosocial behavior. Study 1 measured other-reported prosocial behavior, and selfand other-reported sympathy. Moral motivation was assessed by emotion attributions and moral reasoning following hypothetical transgressions in a representative longitudinal sample of Swiss 6-year-old children (N = 1,273). Prosocial beh...

Changing AIDS-risk behavior.

This article contains a comprehensive, critical review of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-risk-reduction literature on interventions that have targeted risky sexual behavior and intravenous drug use practices. A conceptually based, highly generalizable model for promoting and evaluating AIDS-risk behavior change in any population of interest is then proposed. The model holds that ...